Contemporary American Television and Beyond
by
Janet McCabe, Kim Akass
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2007
In his seminal book'Television's Second Golden Age', Robert Thompson described quality TV as 'best defined by what it is not': 'it is not “regular” TV'. Audacious maybe, but his statement renewed debate on the meaning of this highly contentious term. Dealing primarily with the post-1996 era shaped...